Well, there's room for improvement. I'm going to try the hill repeats once every other week.

Happy Running!

I've read that hills can also be excellent interval workouts. Just running full effort upfhill for 60 seconds, rest for 90, sprint for 60, rest for 90 and so on for 15 minutes. Something I'd like to include when I get back into the groove too.

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And then I let it all go again. More "restarts" than I can count but I haven't given up hope or trying yet. So who knows what's possible.

OK ... only took 17 days to get back to it but I finally did. Jumped ahead to Week 2 Day1 and felt really good. My speeds aren't nearly what they were when I quit running a year and a half ago but I suppose that is to be expected. I did finish with a 5 minute sustained run. So that felt good.

Now to find the strength to stick with it

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And then I let it all go again. More "restarts" than I can count but I haven't given up hope or trying yet. So who knows what's possible.

So jumped right in to W2D2 and it felt great. In the end I decided to push a little again. I ran the #5 and #6 segments all together and stretched it to an 8:45 constant run segment, then did my 5 min cool down. Total I did a 37 minute total workout and just over 13 minutes was running. Which doesn't sound like much but after basically a year plus off, I'm actually pretty happy about it.

tomorrow I'll do some calisthenics and stretching stuff, maybe a walk but take that as my rest day

How about you Stephanie? things going well?

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And then I let it all go again. More "restarts" than I can count but I haven't given up hope or trying yet. So who knows what's possible.

Ok I started in December with C25k, then on 12/7, fell and broke my wrist. I started back running 2/17 W2D1, wasn't sure I'd make it. I had signed up for my first 5k to be 3/2, thinking I would be done with C25K, however a broken wrist tends to derail all of that. Well I'm still doing the 5K on Saturday, I don't care if I only run for 1:30 of it. I didn't think I could run for 3 minutes sustained last night, but I did it twice!!! My first real 5k will be the day before my 36th birthday. My son and husband have been hugely supportive and even though I don't run fast, I did 1.11 miles last night at a pace of 12:12. That's not completely horrible, right? I plan on staying in the back of the pack on Saturday, but knowing my son is running beside me and my hubby is waiting at the finish line....totally worth it all.

Dkk, 12:12 is great! My first big goal was a 36:00 minute 5K and it felt fantastic. Good luck on the 5K!

As for me, a couple great days of running I took a rest day Saturday and then got hit by a nasty chest cold. Been down for two more days with that. I can barely walk without coughing. Hopefully I'll be back at it in a couple days. But for now I consider it good that the desire is there. I'm actually pissed to be missing these days.

Fingers crossed that motivation holds until I can breath.

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And then I let it all go again. More "restarts" than I can count but I haven't given up hope or trying yet. So who knows what's possible.

Wideguy- I really hope I can keep at least a 15 minute pace throughout the 5k. I know there will be people who just walk, so even my crazy slightly faster than a walk job will get me through. I had a terrible migraine yesterday and I worry about doing W3D2 tonight, but I know I can, I did it Monday. For Saturday's race, I'm going to walk at first, probably the first mile and then do the W3D3 program to finish it up. Fingers crossed that I don't trip and I know I won't quit.

Try some Vicks Vap-o-rub, I swear by that stuff, make sure you get some on your back where your lungs are, there's something about that stuff that just opens me up and makes me feel so much better. I think I'll do ok, plus I have a wicked cool Wonder Woman t-shirt to wear, so I'm looking forward to it. Plus as a reward, my hubby is taking me to our local brew-pub that night, so I have something to work towards. LOL

I'm a little nervous, but more excited than anything. I've never run for three minutes at a time so the idea of possible banging out an entire mile just makes me grin ear to ear. And they'll have a photographer taking pics, hopefully they make me look really fast!

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